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			<h1>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</h1>
			<p>Day 00887: Thursday, 2017 August 10</p>
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		I&apos;ve been searching second-hand stores for a less-ratty backpack, but I&apos;ve had no luck.
		I don&apos;t want to show up at the festival looking like I dug my backpack out of the garbage.
		My last two backpacks have been ones people were giving away because they&apos;d gotten so bad.
		All but one of the backpacks I&apos;ve run across in my search have been completely girly.
		Not just girly, but made for middle school girls or younger.
		That&apos;s fine, but it&apos;s not what I want to present as at the festival.
		The only reason I&apos;d even <strong>*consider*</strong> using such a bag is because of how masculine my body looks compared to how I feel.
		Such a bag could help drag my appearance closer to a preferred neutral look.
		That one bag that wasn&apos;t girly was advertising a sports team.
		I&apos;d rather look like a middle school girl that look like I&apos;m into something as stupid as sports, let alone look like I support a particular team.
		Today, I gave up the search and bought a brand new bag.
		This is probably the first brand new bag I&apos;ve had in over a decade.
		The masculine bags were either <strong>*too*</strong> masculine or too expensive, so I went with one that was sort of girly.
		The repeating pattern includes some pink, but it&apos;s a nice pattern and a little pink isn&apos;t going to kill me.
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		I noticed a while back that bicyclists can set off the drive-through sensor at work, but pedestrians can&apos;t.
		I assumed that pedestrians weren&apos;t quite heavy enough, but the slight added weight of a bicycle let cyclists cross the weight threshold.
		A cyclist explained what&apos;s actually going on today though.
		Apparently, it has to do with the metal in the bikes and motor vehicles.
		It sounds like maybe it&apos;s magnet-operated.
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		With school almost out for a week, I&apos;ve checked out from the library the second book on my reading list: <a href="urn:isbn:9781402775468">The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</a>.
		In some ways, I think this book will be a better read than the last one, though at the same time, I can&apos;t help but think that last book was conductive to my healing process.
		This time, I used the library&apos;s search system that they wanted me to use, so that checks another item off my to-do list once I complete this book.
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